The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... becoming connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his first arrival at Bristol , as a can- didate , in the year 1774 , to his ...
... becoming connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his first arrival at Bristol , as a can- didate , in the year 1774 , to his ...
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... becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata falsitas ( says he ) , in multis est probabilior ...
... becomes the sober aspect of truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata falsitas ( says he ) , in multis est probabilior ...
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... Even in matters which are , as it were , our own . just within our reach , what would become of the world , if the practice of all moral duties , and the foundations of society , rested upon having their rea sons 6 PREFACE .
... Even in matters which are , as it were , our own . just within our reach , what would become of the world , if the practice of all moral duties , and the foundations of society , rested upon having their rea sons 6 PREFACE .
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... become at several times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well - known and well - attested ones had not given them a color . The first settling of the Jews here was attended by an almost ...
... become at several times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well - known and well - attested ones had not given them a color . The first settling of the Jews here was attended by an almost ...
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... becomes the most foolish and capricious thing , at the same time that it is the most ter- rible and destructive that well ... become victims of his sus- picions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as ...
... becomes the most foolish and capricious thing , at the same time that it is the most ter- rible and destructive that well ... become victims of his sus- picions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as ...
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